Multiple color overlay effects on the same layer in Affinity Photo

[mlmckenzie]

Is it possible to have more than one color overlay effect on the same layer in Affinity Photo?

[NotMyFault]

You can add a group layer with another overlay. But only the last / outer most will survive.

Counter question: what do you want to achieve as result?

[mlmckenzie]

I'm trying to duplicate a technique that I use in photoshop that allows for multiple copies of the same layer effect but with different settings.  In my case I can use a light and dark tone of the same color  with two different blend modes for each tone as well.  This allows the lighter tone to effect the highlights and the darker tone to effect the midtones and shadow.

[mlmckenzie]

In photoshop the layer effects panel has a small "+" button next to some of the effects that allow you to add additional copies of those effects to the layer which can then be modified for this purpose.

[Old Bruce]

Perhaps you could use something other than an effects layer. Two fill layers with the 'tones' may do it, a couple of pixel layers with tones painted on may do it....

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, mlmckenzie said:

I can use a light and dark tone of the same color  with two different blend modes for each tone as well.  This allows the lighter tone to effect the highlights and the darker tone to effect the midtones and shadow.

How about not using a layer effect, but creating the colour overlay with separate objects and using masks or simply the blend range options of the layer for tone selection? In this exaggerated example ('normal' blend modes), the green layer affects the shadows and has this blending curve reversed.

[mlmckenzie]

Thanks for all the suggestions!  After some experimenting the group method does actually work for what I am trying to do and is the quickest solution for what i am trying to achieve.  The group effect does not cancel out the underlying color overlay as long as the blend modes are different.